Dual monitor set up

Do you have room for 3 monitors and/or have you considered it? If space were not a factor for me, I would have 3 monitors on an articulating mount so that I can move and rotate each screen as necessary. Hell, maybe even 4 tiled 2x2.

It really depends on what you're going to be doing on the machine to optimize the ergonomics. If you do a lot of document editing, coding, spreadsheets, or even web browsing, you might consider doing that on a monitor oriented vertically since that's how we tend to view real documents. Watching videos, viewing/editing images, and other misc or general purpose stuff might be better horizontal. Similarly for side by side vs stacked, that depends on what feels better to you for what you're doing.

I have a vertical 24 and horizontal 24 in office. Like the vertical screen for documents. Game on a 27”.

The only correct answer here is a Mac Pro spec’d out (on wheels) with dual XDR displays on articulating arms

No kidding

For gaming I find it a must to have my main display directly in-front me. When I had to monitors (matching) I had one centered and one to the left; I did not want the two bezels centered and having to look slightly one way or the other.

I now have 3 monitors. The two older matching are on either side of my new "main" display; both are 24". I have one in portrait/vertical and the other on my right is in landscape/horizontal. IMO it looks funky, but I love having one in portrait for performance/temp graphs, documents, discord, etc. While desk space isn't a problem for me, it does also help save room. I use to have my other horizontal 24" above my new main display but found it less pleasurable to view having to look up.

Articulation mounts are a must. I buy the cheap/off brand ones from amazon and they have been working just great. I just made sure to verify the weight capacity and vesa size.

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Like the stacked set up

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Why would you do this? You wouldn't like it.

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It’s the only way to roll. Some of my coworkers keep their laptops open to get a third screen. I think that’s overlill

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Depends on what you do...

I have 3 monitors and that's still not enough. I'm a software developer. At all times I am working in database software, visual studio, visual studio code, and browser. And this is minimum. Sometimes, I also have source code software open, email, adobe illustrator/photoshop. I work in all 4 of those at the same time and so I'm still having to minimize/maximize the whole time.

That's at home. At work, I have my Surface tablet, a 2K monitor and a 4K monitor. On the 4K monitor, I'm able to split it into 4 windows. So I essentially have 6 monitors at work.

If you do tech type work (programming, graphic design, IT, etc.), I would say 3 monitors is a minimum if you're going for convenience and comfort.

My wife is an accountant... 2 monitors is plenty for that.

So based on some rec's I went with one - the 49 inch DELL - LINK

I know it is a gaming computer but the flexibility to essentially have 2 27 flow together and then change inputs etc -

After a few days, love the monitor -

So if I have an HP laptop with a docking station that has two display ports on it, how would I go about doing a single Ultrawide monitor? Do I just plug that in, and would I be able to make it look like a dual monitor setup? Looks like it has Intel UHD Graphics 620 adapter, if that helps. It is a ZBook, not sure exactly which model, but it is about 2 years old. Intel Core i7-8650U @ 1.90GHz processor. Also would want the monitor to be mountable to my standing desk. Some of the ones I've seen don't look like they have anything but a stand.

Main reason I'm asking is that my home office is almost built, and we're trying to put the desk and stand up piece in a certain spot, but my dual monitors now are a tad wide. Thinking I could just replace them with one Ultrawide and it would be good to go. Which would also leave me room to have the laptop available to be opened up for video calls.